Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-03
y A GREAT BRIDGE.
JOEL BENTON WRITES OF A RAIL
ROAD ENTERPRISE.
The Great Structure Now Building Over
the Hudson-A Pleasant Visit to an I'm
portant Engineering Work - How the
Undertaking is Going Forward.
Especial Correspondence

Undertaking is Going Forward.
Especial Correspondence
New York, May IS.
Few people are very distinctly impressed,
imagine, with the stupendous work that is
now going on at Poughkeepsie with reference
to railroad crossing over the Hudson river
That project to bridge the river at that city
has been frequently talked of almost every
body knows The opposition to it, which al
ways happens when any bridge endeavors to
cross any navigable stream, has done more
than anything to call it to recent attention
but even now the magnitude of the scheme is
hardly realized by the general public. When
it is remembered, however, that the distance
from shore to shore at that point is 1904
feet, that the approaches ON the Poughkeep-
sic side consist of viaduct Of 5000 feet in
length" while on the west side the approaches
| add 900 feet more-making in oil one and
| one-half miles almost-it will be seen that the
| bridge is to take rank as one of the greatest
| structures of the kind in the world One
| bridge only, it is said, win be longer, and
that is the bridge over the Firth Of Forth in
Great Britain, which is in progress, but
which is not yet built.
A few days since, on the invitation of Mr.
]. d. Platt, editor Of The Poughkeepsie Daily
| $50 Joi'0o Soinpahy VI loo, WIN, aNah-
u o w % Vi one s'eaiiooio ". o. nus
80 "nu oso Vi INC Pie''saii'es' VI May
Icy i''io i'1o anu easy excursion arouho
! the piers and cribs of the bridge and for some
distance above and below the bridge
site. The activity of the men engaged in
the construction of this great work was
thus easily SEEM. About 600 are now
employed on the spot, which force is soon to
be increased one-thiId, until 1000 are at
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top' 50 ,iIuC "heh Ihe loWer edges rest upon
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W ~ VI ,no ia'se "oih ana .he WOOD
Co.. iil,o''''S oh .i'e forest
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